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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

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But we know from an analysis of federal data that nationally, one in five college students is parenting, more than a third of Black college students are parents, and nearly half of all Black female undergraduates are mothers. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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A Hechinger Report/inewsource analysis of California community college data yielded stark results. Although whites and Asians also have poor pass rates in these low-level remedial classes, the inewsource/Hechinger Report analysis found that Latino students are twice as likely as whites to end up in the lowest level of remedial English.

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

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But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions. Arizona collects limited discipline data from its districts.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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household incomes by 5 percent by 2060, according to one analysis. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it. The bad news?

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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”

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They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Dropout rates rose in the fall of 2020 to their highest level since 2012, the Clearinghouse reports. Related: Some colleges ease up on pushing undergrads into picking majors right away.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. . “Preston Thorne was a unique piece of what made our school culture so great,” she said.

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Is California saving higher education?

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The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”. Data analysis is being used to pinpoint bottlenecks, such as those overcrowded courses. If not, I’ll be taking summer classes to be sure I am.”.